Rudy Giuliani talks to reporters before the Republican National Convention, on July 16, 2024, in Milwaukee (AP Photo/Paul Sancya).
Rudy Giuliani cleared all of the valuable items out of his Manhattan apartment in the weeks before he was required to turn over control of the residence and its valuables to the mother-daughter pair of Georgia election workers he defamed, the duo’s attorney said in a letter filed in federal court on Monday.
Lawyers for Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss — who were awarded an astronomical $148 million judgment in December 2023 for Giuliani’s repeated lies about their actions during the 2020 election — said it was even more concerning that Giuliani and his counsel have “refused or been unable to answer basic questions about the location of most of the property subject to the receivership.”
The Oct. 31, 2024, visit to Giuliani’s apartment — which is valued between $5 million and $6 million — was for the express purpose of assessing Freeman and Moss’ transportation and storage needs for the property being surrendered to them by the former mayor.
“[W]hen the Receivers’ representatives were finally granted access to the New York Apartment, they learned for the first time upon entering that Defendant had moved virtually all of its contents out approximately four weeks ago — something that neither Defendant nor Defendant’s counsel had bothered to mention,” the letter, filed by attorney Aaron Nathan in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, states. “Save for some rugs, a dining room table, some stray pieces of small furniture and inexpensive wall art, and a handful of smaller items like dishes and stereo equipment, the Apartment has been emptied of all of its contents.”
According to Nathan, the “vast majority (if not all)” of the valuable property Giuliani was known to have kept in the Manhattan home had been removed, including “art, sports memorabilia, expensive furniture, and other items not conspicuous enough to appear in listing photographs.”
In addition to alleging that Giuliani concealed the fact that his property had been “secreted away,” the letter states that the former New York City mayor and his counsel have been evasive in disclosing the location of the property required to be surrendered and have not responded to “repeated requests for an inventory” of the items and their locations.
“More broadly, Defendant’s counsel have ignored most of the Receivers’ counsel’s requests for information regarding the location of all receivership assets,” the letter states. “Defendants’ counsel have proved either unable or unwilling to provide the requested information, despite having represented to this Court on October 29 that the receivership property was ‘being held for delivery wherever Plaintiffs request.””
Giuliani’s lawyers did say that some of his things had been moved to a storage facility in eastern Long Island, about 50 miles away from Manhattan, but Nathan said they have refused to disclose “what property is stored there.”
In response to the filing, Judge Lewis J. Liman ordered Giuliani to appear in court on Thursday for a status conference that had previously been set to take place over the phone.
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